Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wedding ceremony called for the couple to walk around the altar three times; bride and groom traditionally try to be the first to step on the other's feet (the winner is then able to claim supremacy in the household). Man and wife are crowned with wreaths and drink from a cup of wine in order to symbolize the "harmony of soul and bodies." Everything, from sugared almonds to the waiting yacht, was ready to celebrate the new life of Mr. and Mrs. Aristotle Onassis. Everything, that is, except what is known as "the world," which seemed unable to comprehend...
...another occasion, in a speech in Fresno, California, Nixon ate a symbolic bunch of grapes and told the crowd "I will eat California grapes and drink the product of those grapes whenever...
...George but politics and the pursuit of power. Food has no interest for him: he will eat anything, so long as it is smothered in ketchup. He is never without a cigar, but he cannot say what brand he is smoking at any given moment. He does not drink: alcohol, he says, "wastes your physical and mental energy." His dress is nondescript: always a white shirt and a faintly iridescent black suit. He has no hobbies and no interest in material possessions (he claims assets of $77,000). Aboard his campaign plane, he spends most of his time staring stolidly...
Schirra meanwhile, was setting new records. The 45-year-old Navy captain, a veteran of near-perfect Mercury and Gemini missions and the first pilot to make a space rendezvous, became the first man to a drink coffee and the first to develop a full-blown cold in space. "I've gone through eight or nine Kleenexes with some pretty good blows, he radioed, "and I've taken two aspirins." NASA doctors prescribed decongestant pills that they routinely store aboard Apollo spacecraft...
...very rich and the very powerful represent the most visible threats to the community, and, while Vellucci's attacks on the University always strike a responsive chord, they also increase the paranoia that is beginning to spread through the neighborhood. While Vellucci may refused in just to eat or drink at the annual Town and Gown Dinner given by the Presidents of MIT and Harvard for the City Councillors...